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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

Benjamin Whichcote

If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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Cases Eye Men
Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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Credit Letters Men
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Dignity Nature Unworthy
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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Acceptance Law Teacher
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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Men Repentance Should
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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Knowledge Known Knows Least
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
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Becoming Mercy Submission
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Grace Law Men

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